Intending to move forward productively and with purpose we need to renew strengths and motivation for ourselves, our teams and organizations.

We invite our present and future clients to business breakfast on "Motivation and energy renewal without magic".

During this 2 hours long event we will discuss various topics of ways of renewing organizational energy and combativity:

• events on actualizing goals
• enlivening managers' teams to develop using development centers
• wide company's summer events spectrum
• seminars for inducing inner motivation

We are ready to discuss any other topic that interests You.

When: 18 the of May
Start: 9 a.m. (registration and light breakfast starts 8:45 a.m.)
Duration: 2 hours
Place: Hotel "Šekspyras", Bernardinu 8/8, Vilnius

We invite You to register: ramune@ovc.lt, tel. 2 649 768

The entry is free, but the number of places is limited.

See You soon!

On the 13th of November the conference moves to Riga (Latvia) and on the 14 th of November there will we conference in Talin (Estonia).

Here is the comprehensive schedule of the conference in Vilnius.

Partners:

Among other “Mentor Lietuva” association members (the SEB Group, LAWIN leading law firm in the Baltic, Vičiūnai Group) we also seek to contribute to the prevention. That is why we decided to enter the Association. “Doing our professional practice, i.e. consulting companies in management issues and training them, we have gathered huge experience and competence working with people. We think we should share it in doing a good job – stimulating and motivating young people to live free and healthy. We want to become mentors and can help to prepare them. We are happy having the possibility to contribute developing youngsters’ living skills the same as learning ourselves from all of it”, – refers our managing director Virginijus Lepeska, the member of the Board of “Mentor Lietuva”. 

You can find more information on "Mentor Lietuva" activities in the web site for further reading.

The full information about the Survey results is in the press-release therein (in lithuanian language only).

2009 MERCER Total Remuneration Survey results yesterday were presented by OVC Consulting senior consultant Zilvinas Akelis. The participants of the event were introduced to several really interesting and valuable presentations: finance management consultant Ausra Meskauskiene reported on performance management indexes’ importance for personnel managers, she gave useful advices on how personnel specialists might contribute to their [indexes] assessment and management; during the event Edita Znutiene, UAB “Svyturys-Utenos alus” Human Resource Manager, shared her experience on creating compensation system, Ernestas Letukas, UAB “ATEA” Personnel Manager, narrated about the advantages and disadvantages of firm’s decentralized management while managing human resources within the company.   

Yesterday the association Investors‘ Forum hold a 10 year anniversary event during which an International and Lithuanian investors gathered to the forum with Lithuanian Government „Investors' Forum 1999-2009". Founders of the Forum referred that during the lifetime of Investors’ Forum not all goals were obtained although investment climate in Lithuania is improved. Businessmen didn’t pity the Government and criticized huge existing bureaucratic apparatus, though gratified that a constructive dialogue with the Government is maintained. In the Forum investors’ expectations were referred, discussed the opportunities of direct investments from the foreign countries and challenges, issues that are necessary for increasing business competitive ability within the country.

By welcome talk Investors‘Forum event was opened by its executive director Rūta Skyrienė, association Chair of the Board Rolandas Valiūnas and Vilnius mayor Vilius Navickas. The executives all over the biggest Lithuanian companies started to plant their trees in Lithuanian Investors Alley while the wind-instruments‘chords sounded. Together with other members we planted the tree also.   

In Lithuanian Investors' Forum alley will grow 34 lindens, that naturalize as Lithuanian business that as it is expected will grow and root into Lithuania. 

On the occasion of the Investors' Forum 10 years anniversary the "Investors' Forum: A better way to grow" was published (press on the picture below).

Also we would like to share some moments from the event.

Julius Kalinskas photo		Welcome words from the left: Rūta Skyrienė (Association of Investors' Forum executive director), Rolandas Valiūnas (Investors' Forum Chair of the Board)
Julius Kalinskas photo		Opening the Investors' Forum stone and the Alley of Lithuanian Investors from the left: Vilius Navickas (Vilnius mayor), Rolandas Valiūnas (Investors' Forum Chair of the Board)
Julius Kalinskas photo		Guests
Julius Kalinskas photo		Preparing to plant trees
		The work of tree planting have started OVC Consulting tree was planted by our director Virginijus Lepeška
		Lithuanian investors alley
		…within the various Investors' Forum members

The accomplished assessment is directly coherent with the opportunity to apply for European Social Fund Agency for the assisstance under the year 2007 – 2013.

What this training is about, why this training is designed today and how it is special answers the description of Investment psychology training.

This new product is created by our senior consultant and product group manager Paulius Avizinis.

We invite you to look at OVC Consulting Summer event Pea! (press on the picture below).

Responding to customer service providers’ training and development needs, OVC Consulting offers:

• an interactive event “Ways to Make Difference in Customer Service”,
• seminar “Customer Service in a Downturn”.

A record in wages' growth was observed in Lithuania over nine months of 2008. In 2008, employers raised wages for their employees about 15% on the average, which makes an increase of 5% over the same period last year, revealed the survey carried out by the management consulting and training company OVC Consulting.

According to the results of the survey, only a tenth of all employees did not receive increased wages. The organizers of the survey stated that the growth of wages in Lithuania significantly exceeds the plans and forecasts of companies.

According to Zilvinas Akelis, senior consultant of OVC Consulting, the heads of companies usually tend to raise wages with regard to individual results of their employees. However, recently a tendency has been observed that employers pay more attention to the norms of general wages system and the situation in the market, which is not affected by employees at all.

The survey showed that the highest increase in wages (19%) was registered in Vilnius. Analysts call that a traditional gap of the capital. Despite that, the growth in payment for work did not overtake other Lithuanian cities and towns: in Kaunas and the majority of other towns the payments for work went up 14%, in Klaipeda it stood at 13%.

Ninety-eight Lithuanian companies participated in the survey this year. OVC Consulting collected data about 15,000 employees. OVC Consulting is a strategic partner of MERCER for MERCER Remuneration Surveys and joint consulting projects in Baltic’s.

We would like to welcome our new team members – consultant Egle and consultant assistant Justina.

Our current consultant Ieva decided to suspend consulting practice for a short time. She is starting her master degree studies on Organizational Behavior and is leaving for Aston Business School (Aston University, UK). We wish her good luck and look forward for her return.

This program is dedicated for finance sector sales manager, working with investment services.This program is designed to equip sales managers to become an effective investment services consultant.

Two day training program covers two major topics:

• developing necessary interaction skills with investment services customers
• getting acquainted with investment psychology and learning how to use it in work with investment services customers (how investment services customers are making decisions, what common mistakes they tend to make, how to manage customers negative stereotypes about investment and their negative emotions in the case of failure and etc.).

This program is designed and conducted by our senior consultant Paulius Avižinis.

Our previous brand and company name “Organizacijų vystymo centras” (Center for Organization Development) was not changed since the establishment of the company in 1995 and therefore it did not represent the today’s qualitatively changed inside our company.

We are glad to introduce our new brand representing more clearly our activities and values. Our new brand is built on core elements, which matured over the time – knowledge, experience and individual solutions. In all we do, we strive to use all necessary knowledge and experience, apply it creatively to the unique client’s situation and obtain the wisdom to lead.

After the company’s rebranding the trademark attributes are changed accordingly, including its logo, signs on the premises of the company, all internal and external materials and the renewed Internet site.

OVC Consulting contact and legal information (the address, legal name, company code, VAT code, Internet site address) as well as company management and organizational structure remains unchanged.